playlist

«playlist» in Mova's school dictionary: a list of songs or videos chosen to be played one after… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a playlist, playlists); verb (playlist, rare)

meaning for a pupil

1) A playlist is a list of songs or videos chosen to be played one after another, on a phone, music app or the radio. tree →

2) (radio) A playlist is the list of songs a radio station has chosen to play often. tree →

sense in the lessons

In everyday life, children make playlists for parties, car journeys, exercise or sleep. In computing lessons, a playlist is an example of a list or sequence, where order matters and items can be added, removed or shuffled. In maths, you can work out how long a playlist lasts by adding song lengths. Phrases: «make a playlist», «add to the playlist», «shuffle the playlist».

examples

• I made a playlist for our road trip. tree →
• Add that song to my playlist! tree →
• The party playlist lasted three hours. tree →
• Shuffle the playlist so the songs come in a random order. tree →
• Our teacher has a calm playlist for writing time. tree →
• My playlist has twelve songs of about three minutes each, so it lasts about 36 minutes. tree →

note

Countable noun, written as one word. In maths problems, the total time of a playlist = the sum of the song lengths; remember 60 seconds = 1 minute when adding minutes and seconds.

In the corpora

• A playlist made only from your old habits rarely brings you something truly new.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «playlist» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.